The biggest news to come out of E3 so far is the announcement that Microsoft is to make the Xbox One backwardly compatible with the 360, via a free software update.

Frankly, if they wanted to stick it to Sony's PS4, they couldn't have done a better job. Sony's presentation may have unveiled The Last Guardian, but was otherwise devoid of jaw-dropping announcements.

Also interesting... if not entirely selling us on the concept... was Microsoft's Hololens jamboree, which featured some sort of new "tabletop" version of Minecraft. Click through for the slightly awkward demonstration, by two people who have absolutely no chemistry.